Chapter 167: Wounded
The old couple heard that there were only three ripe tomatoes, one flower ate it, one gave it to Li Zhenbao, and one brought it here, they hurriedly put down their chopsticks, and there were still two slices left on the plate.
The old lady pushed the plate and laughed, “Resignation Mo daughter-in-law try a bite, you’ve worked so hard for so long, you haven’t eaten yet.”
Jiang Yishi laughed, “I’ll eat it next time.”
As soon as the words fell, Hua Hua rushed to the old lady’s leg and stood up to give her a bow.
It still wanted to eat.
Jiang Yishi snapped, “You’ve eaten one all by yourself, and you’re still fighting for your mouth. If you want more, there won’t be any for you tomorrow.”
The old lady smiled and took Hua Hua into her arms, “You’ve eaten so much then you’re not allowed to compete, there are still two slices left, leave them for An Ge’er and Xin Er to eat.”
The next day the other two tomatoes were ripe, at night Jiang Yishi made scrambled eggs with tomatoes according to Li Zhenbao, and the masters each had a bite to taste. The colors were beautiful and the taste was strange, the masters all began to look forward to the tomatoes ripening more often.
On the nineteenth night, when Meng Zhimo didn’t return to the house, Jiang Yixi was a little disappointed.
In the morning of the twentieth, all six tomatoes were ripe.
Flower rolled on the ground, tears came out, Jiang Yishi only had to give it another single. Another to Yichang Grand Princess House and Zheng Shaobao House each sent a, and promised to wait for more ripe and then send more. This is Zheng Ji let Zheng Yu sent seeds, always give their families a taste. Together with the Grand Princess Yichang sent, there is also Jiang Yishi boiled tonic soup.
There are still three tomatoes left to take to Fu An Tang cut into slices, she scraped out the seeds before letting people eat, all the masters who came to ask for peace have tasted a piece of the old man and child each ate an extra piece.
At the end of July, all the tomatoes began to ripen. In addition to successively give the newspaper temple of the Yu and master, Yichang Grand Princess House and Zheng House each sent three pounds, and to the old state Duke’s family of old friends and the Jiang family each sent two pounds. Jiang Yishi only kept a small portion of the rest for Hua Hua to eat, and took most of it to the small kitchen at Fu An Tang. When the cooks cooked, they had to scrape out the seeds and give them to Jiang Yishi to keep for planting.
Jiang Yishi asked Wu Yougui to tell Wu Dabo to send some to Li Zhenbao, three at a time, every three days. Then send five pounds to the Five Regiments Camp to Meng Zhimo, along with a recipe for making tomatoes. Either send it to King Ping and Concubine Qu, or send it to the upper peak, he will see what he can do.
At the beginning of the eleventh hour of the twenty-ninth day of the seventh month, Meng Zhimo finally returned to the house.
He first went to Fu An Hall to greet the old couple and had a quarter of an hour of secret talks with the old Duke of State before returning to Floating Life Residence.
Jiang Yishi had already had the food and wine prepared, and had even made him scrambled eggs with tomatoes and squirrel fish.
Meng Zhimo was sweating and went directly to the purification room to take a bath. Jiang Yishi found a set of Chinese clothes and pants and put them on the hanger outside the clean room, and personally washed his long hair.
When he was not married, Meng Zhimo’s hair was washed by Meng Lianshan and a few other soldiers. After living in the Floating Life Residence, he didn’t like the maids washing his hair, so Jiang Yishi washed it for him.
Jiang Yishi massaged his head as he washed it, listening to Meng Zhimo talk with his eyes closed.
“I went to the Imperial Tomb yesterday to see King Ping and Auntie, and only returned to camp in the early hours of this morning. When I went to see King Ping before, Auntie didn’t see them because she wasn’t well. This time, she even invited me to dinner. Auntie is very young and beautiful. They say my mother looks very much like her. Seeing her is like seeing my mother. Oh, and she loved the shoes you gave her and brought you a gift.”
Jiang Yishi had a flash of light, all the people who had seen Qu said that Meng Zhimo and Meng Yue looked very much like Qu, which meant that Meng Zhimo and Meng Yue looked very much like Concubine Qu Luo. If the Emperor saw Meng Yue, would he think of concubine Qu and invite them back to the palace?
In fact, the Emperor favored the beautiful concubine Qu, and even if he believed that she had seduced the Crown Prince, he couldn’t bear to execute her, but only drove her mother and son to the royal tomb.
She said, ”In that case, big sister also looks very much like concubine Qu. If we find a way to make the Emperor see Eldest Sister, will he think of Concubine Qu who is suffering far away in the Imperial Tombs?”
Meng Zhimo shook his head and said, “I’ve thought about it that way before. But Big Sister is a person who is a merged and separated …… person, and if the Emperor sees her, it will be even more troublesome.”
He didn’t have the good sense to say this explicitly.
Jiang Yishi understood what he meant. In that case, it was even more important not to let the Emperor see Meng Yue.
She let out a long sigh.
Meng Zhimo smiled and opened his eyes to look at her tenderly before pressing her head down and kissing her for a moment before letting go.
Laughing, he said, “No harm done. As long as we are both alive and well, think long term. Although King Ping is far from the center of power, he has a brooding heart and has found ways to cultivate quite a few dark forces. In a few days, Cousin Qu will come to see him and me.”
After washing her hair, Jiang Yishi left the purification room. After Meng Zhimo finished bathing and put on his Chinese pants, he went out and took out a brocade box from the package he brought back and handed it to Jiang Yishi.
It was a pair of icy jadeite bracelets with excellent water penetration.
Jiang Yishi smiled and said, “It’s very pretty, I like it a lot.”
The two of them sat on the bed, Jiang Yishi poured him a glass of wine and accompanied him.
Meng Zhimo also liked the squirrel fish. Saying, “I sent two pounds of those several pounds of tomatoes to General Jiang and three pounds to Auntie. Auntie really liked the scrambled eggs with tomatoes, saying that it was nice, refreshing, and detoxifying. King Ping and I can’t bear to eat more, so I’ll send a few more pounds over to her later.”
Jiang Yixi wasn’t pregnant, and Meng Ruimo had some regrets, and plowed hard two more times during the night.
The next morning, Meng Ruimo and Jiang Yishi had just started to eat breakfast when a front yard matron came to report that Second Uncle’s longtime follower, Jiang Da, was in the outer yard, saying that something had happened to Second Uncle.
Jiang Yishi was startled, ”Something happened to Xun’er? Quickly let Jiang Da come in to reply.”
Wu You Gui accompanied Jiang Da and hurriedly came to Fusheng Residence.
Jiang Da’s nose was bruised and swollen, and his head was wrapped in gauze. Kneeling down, he said, “Reporting to Second Grandma, the slave failed in his duty and allowed Second Uncle to be injured.”
Jiang Yishi was in a hurry, “Quickly say, is my brother seriously injured?”
Jiang Da said, “Last night, the second master and his fellow students went home after drinking on the food, and on the road they encountered a group of people fighting ……”
The two groups of people fighting, a dozen or so were outsiders and the other three were from the capital.
Jiang Xun with Jiang Da and Wang Fu to pull the fight, who knows the outsiders brutal and unreasonable, even Jiang Xun a few people together. Jiang Xun and Jiang Da powerful martial arts, the other three are not weak, fewer than many, the dozen or so people beat enough, both sides have been injured.
Waiting for the arrival of the magistrate, it was realized that the group of outsiders was the grandson of the Grand Princess of Yishan, Yuan Xian, and his guards, while the other group was the grandson of the Grand Princess of Yichang, Zheng Jing, and his boys, and the third group was Jiang Xun and his lackeys from the House of Wushangbo.
Ignore the third group, the other two groups of people yamen can not afford to mess with, and see their injuries are serious, the age is still small, but only to bring back to the capital city to be patched up, and then report to the capital city magistrate ……
Yishan Grand Princess died early, Yuan Xian five has been followed in Jiangnan official father living in Hangzhou. This time back to the capital to participate in the Empress Dowager’s sixty-fifth birthday, drink too much wine and Zheng Jing a few people fight.